dc.contributor.author | Rylance, Rick | en_GB |
dc.contributor.department | University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-06-04T10:15:55Z | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-25T10:12:23Z | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-20T13:57:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-09-01 | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | My title is derived from G. H. Lewes's psychological magnum opus Problems of Life and Mind (1874–79). Lewes's image is a metaphor for the relation of mind to brain, or more generally of the mind to the nervous system: “every mental phenomenon has its corresponding neural phenomenon (the two being as convex and concave surfaces of the same sphere, distinguishable yet identical)” (Problems: First Series 1: 112). His point is that, though the two entities can be analytically distinguished, they are as necessarily linked as the two surfaces of a bending plane. Like the recto and verso of a sheet of paper, or signifier and signified in the linguistic sign, one can make an interpretative separation of the two, but not an ontological one. It is a characteristically deft metaphor by Lewes to express a notoriously vexed relationship, not only in Victorian psychology but also in modern thinking today. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | 32 (2): pp 449-462 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017.S1060150304000592 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10036/29443 | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=241166 | en_GB |
dc.subject | Psychological theory - 19th century | en_GB |
dc.subject | Psychological theory - Victorian period | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mind and body | en_GB |
dc.subject | Lewes, G.H. - Problems of Life and Mind | en_GB |
dc.title | Convex and concave: conceptual boundaries in psychology, now and then (but mainly then). | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2008-06-04T10:15:55Z | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-25T10:12:23Z | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-20T13:57:18Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1060-1503 | en_GB |
dc.description | Article from special issue on Victorian boundaries. Reproduced with permission of the publisher. © 2004 Cambridge University Press. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1470-1553 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Victorian Literature and Culture | en_GB |